WHO: QualityRights materials for training, guidance and transformation (12 November 2019)

Summary

This training from the World Health Organization (WHO) is part of WHO's QualityRights Initiative, which aims to change mindsets and practices in a sustainable way to improve the lives of people with psychosocial, intellectual or cognitive disabilities globally. It seeks to empower all stakeholders to promote rights and recovery.

These materials can be used to build capacity among mental health practitioners, people with psychosocial, intellectual and cognitive disabilities, people using mental health services, families, care partners and nongovernmental organisations. They offer guidance on how to implement a human rights and recovery approach to mental health in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and other international human rights standards.

Content

Training modules

WHO QualityRights core training:

• Human rights. Course guide, course slides
• Mental health, disability and human rights. Course guide, course slides
• Legal capacity and the right to decide. For mental health and social services. Course guide, course slides
• Recovery and the right to health. For mental health and social services. Course guide, course slides
• Freedom from coercion, violence and abuse. For mental health and social services. Course guide, course slides

WHO QualityRights specialised training:

• Recovery practices for mental health and well-being. Course guide, course slides
• Strategies to end seclusion and restraint. Course guide, course slides
• Supported decision-making and advance planning. Course guide, course slides

WHO QualityRights guidance:

• Peer support groups by and for people with lived experience. Guidance module, module slides
• One-to-one peer support by and for people with lived experience. Guidance module, module slides
• Advocacy for mental health, disability and human rights. Guidance module, module slides
• Civil society organizations to promote human rights in mental health and related areas. Guidance module, module slides

Service transformation:

• QualityRights Assessment toolkit
• Transforming services and promoting human rights. For mental health and social services. Course guide, course slides

Self-help:

• Person-centred recovery planning for mental health and well-being self-help tool